Posted by deniseuk190466 on May 21, 2025, at 7:38:46
In reply to Re: Thank God for Zyprexa, posted by SLS on December 19, 2024, at 21:46:13
Hi Scott,
Thanks for responding to my question and apologise for the delay but I find it difficult to just sit and focus on one thing.
I don't consider myself to be better or in remission. I still have to rely on Zyprexa once a week to just reset me and give me a good night's sleep and if anything the antidepressants aren't working as well as they used to. I have been through a lot of changes recently (we all have) with going through the menopause during Covid, was a bit strange.
However, with Zyprexa and the antidepressants my quality of life is good. Having said that I am not particularly sociable and I get tired easily at social things. I don't really look forward to much but I bought a dog during the pandemic and she is one of the good things in my life.
I have been dismissed from my last two jobs, mainly because now I'm 59, I am not prepared to put us with the type of SXit that I used to put up with.
I have also done an open university degree in Psychology and I am thinking of doing a masters because I know how important it is to have some kind of purpose and I am lucky that I am in the financial position where I can.
I think your condition has been much harder to treat than mine but I've always admired how you seem to want to help people in spite of your own condition and I am glad you are experiencing remission.
Re the Zyprexa, can I use an anology of a car. Would you go to a garage with a car that keeps stalling and ask them to put it right. Would you accept it, if they just said well adding more oil to it helps, not sure why but it works. When it is the engine that needs replacing????Antidepressants worked amazingly for me at aged 24. I would say that I was in complete remission so when I asked the Doctor what they were doing to make me feel better and he said, I quote "it's resetting your serotonin levels" I bought into that story and I thought to myself "If I ever get depressed again, I can just go back on my antidepressants and everything will be fine" Well Guess what, I did and they didn't work they made me feel even worse in terms of anxiety and agitation. No idea why? I just get tired of this hit an miss approach to taking meds. It's like playing russian roulette with your mind!!!
Also regarding God and whether there is one or isn't one, I find I'm more inclined to believe in God the less depressed I am feeling but unfortunately, it is the latter that affects the former rather than the other way around if that makes sense. If God make me in (his, her, it's image) then why am I so flawed?? Is God flawed?
Denise
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